Concepts, Cultures and Comparisons

Abstract

In the October/November issue of 2002 the University of Heidelberg newsletter Unispiegel announced a series of public lectures dedicated to the question: ``Are we still a people of poets and thinkers?'', with the subtitle providing the information that the university's Studium Generale lecture series in winter semester 2002/2003 would focus on educational questions (Bildungsfragen) (Unispiegel, 2002). Ten different scholars were invited, including even one scholar from abroad, as the announcement proudly emphasized.